From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 20 04:28:57 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09ADF16A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 04:28:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from darwin.illian.net (darwin.illian.net [80.69.74.160]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3252443D46 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 04:28:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rutger.bevaart@illian.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.illian.net [127.0.0.1]) by darwin.illian.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D3B245184; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 06:28:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from darwin.illian.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (darwin.illian.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 78292-02; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 06:28:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.3.7] (237192.xs4all.nl [194.109.237.192]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by darwin.illian.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F56645089; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 06:28:57 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <200504200324.j3K3OmEf098201@ambrisko.com> References: <200504200324.j3K3OmEf098201@ambrisko.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Rutger Bevaart Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 06:37:33 +0200 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at illian.net Subject: Re: scsi card recommendation X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 04:28:57 -0000 No problems here so far. If there are problems with this toolset, would E Moore be so kind as to release sourcecode for these so that someone can make a ports package out of it (I'd do it)? Or are there any alternatives (that also happen to work on the AMR card used in the PE750) ? Rgds, Rutger On Apr 20, 2005, at 5:24, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Rutger Bevaart writes: > | i've got about 15 Dell 1750, 1850 and 2850 boxes that use AMR-based > SCSI > | RAID controllers. i can manage these perfectly using emoore's port > of the > | amrcontrol and MEGAMGR tools, under 5.x only after adding the > 4x-compat > | ports package. > > Be very careful. Use of those utilities can result in random > problems. I've had to remove all usage of any of that stuff from > our systems. We've had other programs on the system core dump etc. :-( > > Doug A.